Purpose of BostonGIS

BostonGIS is a testbed for GIS and Web Mapping solutions utilizing open source, freely available and/or open gis technologies. We will be using mostly Boston, Massachusetts data to provide mapping and spatial database examples.

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The State of Open Source GIS
A great survey by Refractions summarizing the more popular Open-Source GIS projects. It provides such information as the licensing model used by each project, programming languages the project is developed in and supports,the strength of the development community, where each fits in the spectrum of GIS (e.g. web, desktop, Database, analysis), and formats supported by them. The survey is provided in PDF format.